date:Jul 01, 2014
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City councils across the country have also been weighing in on the problem. On Wednesday, Chicago joined 10 other cities including St. Paul, Seattle and Pittsburgh in passing a resolution to encourage Congress to pass Rep. Louise Slaughters (D-NY) Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA). Slaughter, the only microbiologist in Congress, introduced the bill in March 2013 to ban the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics in the production of livestock.